Our Mission:
Through the power of volunteer advocacy, CASA of Lexington works to ensure that all victims of child abuse and neglect are given a chance to thrive in a safe, permanent home. CASA's trained and supervised volunteers provide an independent voice for children, one child at a time, by speaking for their best interests in the family court system.
Our volunteers go through a 34 hour training series at our office here in Lexington and are thereafter appointed to a case in the Fayette County Family Court system. Once appointed on the case, the CASA volunteer interviews everyone involved. This can include any or all of the following, 
but is not limited to: the child, biological parents, foster parents, teachers, friends, doctors, therapists, and relatives.
The CASA volunteer then writes reports which are sent to the Judge and all other parties (lawyers and social worker) in the case. The judge uses these reports as his or her eyes and ears on the cases that need more attention than others. These reports are very valuable to the Judge. They often provide information on these critical cases that would not otherwise be available.
CASA volunteers are unique. Unlike lawyers and social workers, who are required to consider the parents’ or family’s interests, the CASA volunteer focuses solely on what is best for the child or children. Throughout the child’s case quite often the foster parents, social workers, schools, towns, and everything else in the child’s life will change many times due to placement. One of the goals of CASA is to minimize these changes, both by providing continual monitoring and advocacy for the child, and by being a stable and constant person in this child’s life.
90% of Fayette County's children that need a CASA volunteer today do not have one!
You donation of time and/or rmoney can change that for these abused or neglected children!
